PERL5361DELTA(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERL5361DELTA(1) #

PERL5361DELTA(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERL5361DELTA(1)

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 perl5361delta - what is new for perl v5.36.1

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 This document describes differences between the 5.36.0 release and the
 5.36.1 release.

 If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.35.0, first read
 perl5360delta, which describes differences between 5.35.0 and 5.36.0.

IInnccoommppaattiibbllee CChhaannggeess There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.36.0. If any exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a report. See “Reporting Bugs” below.

MMoodduulleess aanndd PPrraaggmmaattaa UUppddaatteedd MMoodduulleess aanndd PPrraaggmmaattaa • Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20220520 to 5.20230423.

CCoonnffiigguurraattiioonn aanndd CCoommppiillaattiioonn • “Configure” probed for the return type of mmaalllloocc(()) and ffrreeee(()) by testing whether declarations for those functions produced a function type mismatch with the implementation. On Solaris, with a C++ compiler, this check always failed, since Solaris instead imports mmaalllloocc(()) and ffrreeee(()) from “std::” with “using” for C++ builds. Since the return types of mmaalllloocc(()) and ffrreeee(()) are well defined by the C standard, skip probing for them. “Configure” command-line arguments and hints can still override these type in the unlikely case that is needed. [GH #20806 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/20806]

TTeessttiinngg Tests were added and changed to reflect the other additions and changes in this release.

SSeelleecctteedd BBuugg FFiixxeess • An eevvaall(()) as the last statement in a regex code block could trigger an interpreter panic; e.g.

         /(?{ ...; eval {....}; })/

     [GH #19680 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/19680>]

 •   An "eval EXPR" referring to a lexical sub defined in grandparent
     scope no longer produces an assertion failures.  [GH #19857
     <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/19857>]

 •   Writing to a magic variables associated with the selected output
     handle, $^, $~, $=, "$-" and $%, no longer crashes perl if the IO
     object has been cleared from the selected output handle.  [GH #20733
     <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/20733>]

AAcckknnoowwlleeddggeemmeennttss Perl 5.36.1 represents approximately 11 months of development since Perl 5.36.0 and contains approximately 5,500 lines of changes across 62 files from 24 authors.

 Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there
 were approximately 1,600 lines of changes to 23 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.

 Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant
 community of users and developers.  The following people are known to
 have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.36.1:

 Andreas König, Bram, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn
 Ilmari Mannsåker, David Mitchell, Elvin Aslanov, Florian Weimer, Graham
 Knop, Hugo van der Sanden, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Leon
 Timmermans, Matthew Horsfall, Max Maischein, Neil Bowers, Nicolas R,
 Renee Baecker, Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach, Steve Hay, Todd Rinaldo,
 Tony Cook, Yves Orton.

 The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically
 generated from version control history.  In particular, it does not
 include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who
 reported issues to the Perl bug tracker.

 Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN
 modules included in Perl's core.  We're grateful to the entire CPAN
 community for helping Perl to flourish.

 For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please
 see the _A_U_T_H_O_R_S file in the Perl source distribution.

RReeppoorrttiinngg BBuuggss If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug database at https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues. There may also be information at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.

 If you believe you have an unreported bug, please open an issue at
 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.  Be sure to trim your bug down to
 a tiny but sufficient test case.

 If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it
 inappropriate to send to a public issue tracker, then see "SECURITY
 VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION" in perlsec for details of how to
 report the issue.

GGiivvee TThhaannkkss If you wish to thank the Perl 5 Porters for the work we had done in Perl 5, you can do so by running the “perlthanks” program:

     perlthanks

 This will send an email to the Perl 5 Porters list with your show of
 thanks.

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 The _C_h_a_n_g_e_s file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on
 what changed.

 The _I_N_S_T_A_L_L file for how to build Perl.

 The _R_E_A_D_M_E file for general stuff.

 The _A_r_t_i_s_t_i_c and _C_o_p_y_i_n_g files for copyright information.

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